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26 July 2004Rip van HoodwinkThose wonderful folks at Macrovision claim they have a "99-percent" effective copy-protection system for music CDs. A CD thus protected will demand to be run on Windows Media Player, which will then offer (yeah, right) to install Macrovision's Active Software Protection program, which blocks rippage and cloning. For a few more weeks anyway, until they come up with a version of this that will screw up Apple as well as Wintel boxes, this looks like another good argument for a Macintosh. TrackBack: 9:02 AM, 27 July 2004 » Headline From Next Year... from Acorns from an Okie Music Industry Executives Baffled By Decreased Sales of CDs Read Rip van Hoodwink to learn from Charles how Macromedia has created a broken CD (with bad data on the music tracks, etc) that then requires the installation of their software that prevents ......[read more] TrackBack: 5:11 AM, 28 July 2004 » All your CDs are belong to us from Ravenwood's Universe Charles Hill notes that the music industry is up to no good:Those wonderful folks at Macrovision claim they have a "99-percent" effective copy-protection system for music CDs. A CD thus protected will demand to be run on Windows Media Player,......[read more] So the music industry is going to couple with Microsoft to enable their integrated Windows Media Player to lock out third party software. Didn't they learn ANYTHING from their anti-trust suit? Posted by: Ravenwood at 2:48 PM on 27 July 2004Neither MS nor the Big Four seem capable of receiving instruction and/or correction at this point. |